Percy Leason b. 25 February 1889

Also known as Percy Alexander Leason
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer)
Percy Leason is best known as a black and white illustrator but his portraits of Aboriginal subjects completed 1929-1934 make an important contribution to the history of Aboriginal representations.
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Citations

  • (September 1934), 'The Last of the Victorian Aborigines’, Melbourne, Vic., Issued in Connection with an Exhibition at the Athaneum Gallery, Collins Street Melbourne September 1934).

  • Blake, L. J. (November 1968), 'Percy Leason: Artist, cartoonist and Historian’, Victorian Historical Magazine, Vol 39, No. 4, pp.158-180, Address given to the Victorian Historical Society, 27 August 1968. Reprinted as above.

  • (13 July 1929), 'Letter to the editor’, Melbourne, Vic. : Herald, ALSO: 1934-09-10, p.8; 1934-09-11.

  • 'see bibliography’.

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